Englischer
Garten

A people's garden between Enlightenment and landscape style

In 1789 Elector Karl Theodor, acting on a proposal by Benjamin Thompson (later Count Rumford), ordered the creation of a people's garden on the Hirschau. It was a political statement of the Enlightenment: a garden for the people, not a court garden, not an aristocratic park. From 1804 Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell took over the design and created the 375-hectare landscape garden in its present form: meadows, streams, scattered groups of trees, the Kleinhesseloher See, the Monopteros, the Chinese Tower restaurant — a composition that still works after 200 years.

Western flank along Maxvorstadt

The western flank of the Englischer Garten forms the north-eastern border of the University Quarter. From the Academy and the Siegestor it is just a few steps into the park. Königinstraße formally separates Maxvorstadt from the garden; Veterinärstraße leads directly to the university institutes. In the park: around 60 streams and watercourses, including the Eisbach with its famous surfing wave near the Haus der Kunst.